Resources
Complex relationships between large-scale land acquisitions, deforestation, and land zoning policies in agricultural frontiers
This article, authored by members of the Land Matrix's Latin America Regional Focal Point, analyses the links between large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs), deforestation, and zoning policies in the Chaco region of Salta, Argentina, from 1998 to 2021. Using the Land Matrix database, geographic information systems tools, and time-lagged cross-correlation …
The new dynamics of land grabbing in Argentina: Characterization, alternatives, and challenges
This collective work, which includes two chapters authored by members of the Land Matrix Regional Focal Point in Latin America, delves into the territorial transformations linked to the phenomenon of land grabbing in Argentina. See the following chapters for our contributions:
- Chapter 1, Section 1: Competencies and Potential Land-Use Conflicts …
The greenest country in the world? The case of the Saamaka and their fight against deforestation
New evidence from geospatial maps reveals the shocking extent of forest damage to Saamaka territory in Suriname’s Amazon due to illegal logging and mining concessions granted by the government. Saamaka territory is also a critical carbon sink. More than 14 years after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights mandated the …
Large-scale acquisitions of communal land in the Global South: Assessing the risks and formulating policy recommendations
Authors: Jorge A. Rincón Barajas, Christoph Kubitza and Jann Lay
Published: 2024
Source: Land Use Policy
This research by Land Matrix partner GIGA conceptualises and empirically assesses the socioeconomic and environmental risks of large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) for communal lands in the Global South. These risks include the displacement …
Resistencia desde abajo: mujeres en la lucha contra el avance de proyectos eólicos en el estado de Paraíba (Brasil)
Autora: Lorena Izá Pereira
Fecha de publicación: 2022
La procedencia: Land Matrix LAC
No es posible comprender el espacio agrario brasileño sin considerar las nuevas dinámicas derivadas de los nuevos usos del territorio. La expansión de los proyectos de energía eólica, una actividad intensiva en el área, ha …
Impactos del Acaparamiento de Tierras en América Latina y el Caribe: Dossier nº 4
Por cuarto año consecutivo, Land Matrix LAC pone a disposición una herramienta que busca visibilizar diversas situaciones de acaparamiento de tierras en América Latina. A partir de los casos de grandes transacciones subidos a la base de datos Land Matrix Lac, investigadores de siete institutos académicos de varios países de …
Las grandes transacciones de tierras en Argentina: Dinámica de sus intenciones de producción, inversores y conflictividad
Autora: Venencia, C.D, Salas Barboza, A.G.J, Agüero, J.L, y Seghezzo, L.
Fecha de publicación: 2022
La procedencia: Land Matrix LAC
Después de más una década, el fenómeno de grandes transacciones detierrascontinua en aumento, al igual que susefectos sociales y ambientales. En este contexto, a partir de la base de …
Tierras Estatales Transformadas en Grandes Transacciones de Tierras
En el marco de su beca doctoral del Programa Land Matrix, Cristian Venencia presento el Primer Informe Técnico del año 2021 titulado: «Tierras estatales transformadas en Grandes transacciones de tierras». El informe aborda dos casos de estudios, que representan cuatro grandes transacciones de tierras registradas en la base de datos …
Driving dispossession: The global push to “unlock the economic potential of land”
Authors: Frédéric Mousseau, Andy Currier, Elizabeth Fraser, and Jessie Green
Published: 2020
Source: The Oakland Institute
Driving Dispossession: The Global Push to “Unlock the Economic Potential of Land,” sounds the alarm on the unprecedented wave of privatization of natural resources that is underway around the world. Through six case …
Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions
Authors: Davis, K.F., Koo, H.I., Dell’Angelo, J. et al.
Published: 2020
Source: Nature Geoscience
Tropical forests are vital for global biodiversity, carbon storage and local livelihoods, yet they are increasingly under threat from human activities. Large-scale land acquisitions have emerged as an important mechanism linking global resource …
Land inequality and economic growth: A meta-analysis
Authors: Maria Cipollina, Nadia Cuffaro and Giovanna D’Agostino
Published: 2018
Source: Sustainability, MDPI
Increasing commercial pressure on land may lead to land concentration in developing countries, especially in the context of complex systems of property rights. In this article we review through meta-analysis (MA) the econometric findings of …
Elementos para el análisis de la dinámica reciente del acaparamiento de tierra en Colombia a partir de los casos de grandes transacciones de tierra monitoreados por Land Matrix
Autora: Natalia Espinosa Rincón
Fecha de publicación: 2020
La procedencia: Land Matrix LAC
Este artículo presenta algunas características del proceso reciente de acaparamiento de tierras en Colombia que se pueden observar a partir de los datos recogidos por el Observatorio Land Matrix, en el que se han registrado más …
Ten years of contested enforcement of the Forest Law in Salta, Argentina: The role of land-change science and political ecology
Authors: AGJ Salas Barboza, JM Cardón Pocoví, C Venencia, LL Huaranca, JL Agüero, MA Iribarnegaray, M Escosteguy, JN Volante & L Seghezzo
Published: 2019
Source: Journal of Land Use Science
In this study, the authors present a critical account of the enforcement of the Forest Law in the Province …